Newspaper district

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The newspaper district is a part of the southern Friedrichstadt in Berlin , in which over 500 companies in the graphic arts , printing and publishing houses were based. The core area lay between Leipziger Strasse in the north, Wilhelmstrasse in the west, Axel-Springerstrasse and Lindenstrasse in the east, and Mehringplatz in the south.

History of the newspaper district

The newspaper district emerged at the end of the 19th century in the course of the industrialization of the printing industry. In 1867, Rudolf Mosse founded the advertising expedition Rudolf Mosse and produced the Berliner Tageblatt from 1872 , the Berliner Morgen-Zeitung from 1889 and the Berliner Volks-Zeitung from 1904 . As early as 1877, Ullstein Verlag followed suit with the Berliner Zeitung , which was printed in the Ullstein complex specially designed for this purpose. Other Ullstein newspapers were, for example, the Berliner Morgenpost or the BZ am Mittag . In 1883 August Scherl launched a magazine with an advertising and job market, the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger . At the turn of the century, the quarter grew into the world's largest newspaper district. In 1879 what was then the Reichsdruckerei was founded; she moved into properties on the edge of the newspaper district. Today the Bundesdruckerei has its headquarters here in Kommandantenstrasse . In 1919, the area became known as one of the main theaters of the Spartacus uprising .

During the Second World War , the area was badly damaged by an Allied air raid on February 3, 1945 . The construction of the Berlin Wall changed the situation fundamentally: For example, in Schützenstrasse (now in the eastern part of Berlin ) the printing house of the Berlin-Mitte printing house was converted into a state- owned company , VEB Industriedruck . The printing industry reappeared in the area when, in 1967, Axel Springer relocated his company's headquarters from Hamburg to Berlin. He built the Axel Springer skyscraper named after him in the immediate vicinity of the wall . In 1989 the daily newspaper moved into a building on Kochstrasse (today: Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 23) - and thus in direct proximity to the Springer Group - that was previously used by filmmakers. In 1993, the Axel Springer publishing house was relocated to Spandau . The Axel-Springer-Passage was built in place of the once listed printing hall .

The origin of the newspaper district - the Mossehaus - is currently still on the corner of Schützen and Jerusalemer Straße with the architecture designed by Erich Mendelsohn in the 1920s. The building is now a listed building and, among other things, is the seat of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin . Until 2013, this building housed the Berlin-Mitte printing house, one of the city's largest printing plants.

Todays use

Of the publishing buildings, only the Axel Springer high-rise with the Axel Springer Passage remains today. The GSW building of GSW Immobilien is located on the site of the Ullstein complex . Its trademark, an owl , which was placed in front of the Axel-Springer-Passage next to the monument to the fathers of unity , is reminiscent of the Ullstein publishing house . Where small stone and book printers and magazine publishers were based before the Second World War, there is now a business quarter at Markgrafenpark . The buildings in Lindenstrasse were completely destroyed and developed in the course of the International Building Exhibition in 1984 . It was here that apartments in the social housing . The Kreuzberghaus zum Alten Fritz , a high-rise from the 1960s, is still in the immediate vicinity . It is named after a restaurant of the same name that was located on Zimmerstrasse. After the fall of the wall , the once remote area was now back in the middle of the city. In 2000, the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers moved into a specially built new building on Markgrafenstrasse . In 2010 the central editorial office of the German Press Agency started its work in the newspaper district.

Initiative Berliner Zeitungsviertel e. V.

In September 2007, a number of Berlin publicists , journalists and scientists founded the Berliner Zeitungsviertel initiative . It has set itself the goal of "making the past and present of the Berlin newspaper district visible in an attractive and exciting way through a multimedia exhibition in the urban space."

literature

  • Felix Henseleit: .... and yet this is still the old scene. The Berlin newspaper district then and now. Special print for the friends of our house (Axel Springer Verlag) , Ullstein, Berlin 1965.
  • Hans Wallenberg (Ed.): Berlin Kochstrasse. Contributions by Walter Brückmann, Ulrich Conrads, Hans Erman u. a. , Ullstein, Berlin. Frankfurt. Vienna 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b newspaper district and stronghold of the printing industry on zeitungsviertel.de, accessed on September 11, 2011.
  3. ^ Arne Reul: The Berlin newspaper district. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 13, 2007, accessed on September 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Werner von Westhafen: The Berlin newspaper district - 1st part. In: Kreuzberger Chronik , October 2005, issue 41, accessed on September 15, 2011.
  5. ^ History of Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte , on druckhaus-berlin-mitte.de, accessed on September 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ Steffen Grimberg: A quarter is making newspapers again. In: taz , June 17, 2009, accessed on September 11, 2011.
  7. ↑ Michael Jespersen: Disk, Tower and Pillbox: Sauerbruch / Hutton's GSW high-rise in Berlin opened In: BauNetz , September 2, 1999, accessed on September 11, 2011
  8. ↑ Kreuzberghaus to the old Fritz. At: zeitungsviertel.de , accessed on September 11, 2011.
  9. ↑ BDZV and VDZ inaugurate “House of the Press” in Berlin. BDZV press release of September 21, 2000, accessed on January 8, 2017.
  10. ^ Press release from dpa: The headquarters of the dpa editorial office in Berlin. At: dpa.de , accessed on September 15, 2011.
  11. ^ Initiative Berliner Zeitungsviertel e. V .: Press information on the founding ceremony of the Berliner Zeitungsviertel e. V. of June 25, 2007 ( PDF file, accessed on September 11, 2011).